'Instead' in the Bible
Indeed, we felt within ourselves that we had received the sentence of death [and were convinced that we would die, but this happened] so that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead.
As a result, you should instead forgive and comfort him. Otherwise, this one may be overwhelmed by excessive grief.
At least we are not commercializing God's word like so many others. Instead, we speak with sincerity in the Messiah's name, like people who are sent from God and are accountable to God.
Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God’s message, but commending ourselves to every person’s conscience in God’s sight by an open display of the truth.
Instead, in every way we demonstrate that we are God's servants by tremendous endurance in the midst of difficulties, hardships, and calamities;
In fact, when we came into Macedonia, we had no rest. Instead, we were troubled in every way: conflicts on the outside, fears inside.
So, even though I wrote to you, it wasn't because of the man who did the wrong or because of the man who was hurt. Instead, I wrote to you so that your devotion to us might be made perfectly clear to you before God.
and not just as we had hoped. Instead, they gave themselves especially to the Lord, then to us by God’s will.
For the weapons of our warfare are not those of the world. Instead, they have the power of God to demolish fortresses. We tear down arguments
We will not boast about what cannot be evaluated. Instead, we will stay within the field that God assigned us, so as to reach even you.
What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
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- Instead (589 instances)